May 5, 2008
Enrolling New Students for Next Year in PowerScheduler
1. Create the 08-09 school year, duplicating the start and end dates from the scheduler side.
*Create the school year on the live side by clicking on school, years and terms, and new. Be sure to use the same start and end dates that you used in PowerScheduler.
2. Switch to the 08-09 school year in Term View
3. Enroll the student who is coming from a different District, setting the students next year grade to the same grade as their entry grade.
*So to enroll the new student go to the live side and click on special functions and enroll new student. Enter in the grade level that they will be in next year and use the first day of the 2008-2009 school year as the start date. Once you have enrolled them, click on the scheduling setup screen for that student and fill in the next year grade (which will be the same grade level you used when you enrolled them), the priority, check to schedule this student, year of graduation and next school indicator. Keep in mind since the student's start date is in the future they have a pre-registered status in PowerSchool. If you need to pull up their screens at anytime on the live side you must type in /lastname in the search students box on the start page.
Posted by Melissa Bitz at 12:54 PM
April 11, 2008
Public Access to the PowerSchool Daily Bulletin
Allowing Public Access to the PowerSchool Daily Bulletin
Access is granted by each school and district individually
1. Log into PowerSchool
2. Click the School or District link on the left side of the page
3. Click the Miscellaneous link
4. Check the box to allow Public Access to the Daily Bulletin
a. If access is granted at the District Office only items added to the Bulletin at the
District Office can be viewed.
Look up School Numbers
The School Number is needed if public bulletin access is granted at the individual school level
1. Change the School to District Office
2. Click the District link on the left side of the page
3. Click the Schools/School Info link
4. Note the number in the School Number column for the needed school
Add the Link
Use the following pattern when adding the link on a school web page for the public to access the daily bulletin. To make it work for your school replace demo with the correct school district name from the PowerSchool address
Link for District Office Daily Bulletin
http://demo.ps.state.nd.us/bulletin
Link for the EduTech High School Daily Bulletin
http://demo.ps.state.nd.us/bulletin/2333
Posted by Melissa Bitz at 3:45 PM
March 4, 2008
Teacher Comments in the Web Gradebook
If teachers make long comments in the web gradebook the comments will run off the page when you view the comment on the quick lookup screen for a student. In order to force the text to wrap correctly have the teacher press enter so often so that it forces a break in that comment.
Posted by Melissa Bitz at 4:04 PM
November 23, 2007
Multiple Final Grades on an Individual Progress Report in PowerGrade
There may be times where you want to have multiple final grades printed on the Individual Progress Report that can be printed in PowerGrade. The other day I had Nancy from Fessenden call our help desk with this question so I can not take credit for this idea to blog on this!! To add multiple final grades in the header, go to the report and by default there is a final grade code of < FG grade:* > (no spaces). Replace the * with the final grade that you would like to pull. So if you are printing a progress report at quarter 2 time and would like to print the quarter 1 final grade and the current quarter 2 grade your code may look like this:
Q1 Grade: < FG grade:Q1 > (no spaces in the code)
Q2 Grade: < FG grade:Q2 > (no spaces in the code)
Posted by Melissa Bitz at 12:06 PM
October 19, 2007
Parent Portal
I came across this website today and thought I would share it with others. Lately we have had customers ask about a resource for parents to learn the parent portal. Here is a link to a tutorial created by Matt Freund http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/district/helpdesk/index.asp
Posted by Melissa Bitz at 1:36 PM